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		crowcroft 58 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication ... Apple has clearly done a lot of work in this space and have decided to retain Touch ID on Macbooks. I think this is fairly instructive.

real0mar 58 days ago [–]

That was primarily because the face id sensor stack is too thick to fit in the laptop lid

crowcroft 58 days ago | [–]

The point being that they think they need those sensors in order to create a secure system.

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